July 2010
40 posts
Client: “The website you designed looks great but my partner is here and she’s looking at it from across the room and it’s a bit difficult to read.”
Me: “From across the room?”
Client: “It looks better from across the table, but go ahead and take a look at what you can do to fix the issue.”
(via clientsfromhell)
I currently am a member of eight Tumblogs.
I may have a problem.
“A closer analysis of the problem…revealed that the waiting time until luggage...”
– Nudge blog · Always hurrying, never waiting (via slantback)
“I’m opposed to actors taking sides in public and spouting spontaneously about...”
– Cary Grant (via shosannaquinto)
Dave: Do you have any formal training in marketing or were you just born awesome? These headers and the ensuing copy are very catchy.
me: I've seen every episode of Mad Men. Does that count?
Watchthedailywhat:
Brain Slushie of the Day: “Cyberbullying victim” Jessi Slaughter and her parents Gene and Diane speak exclusively with Good Morning America’s Andrea Canning about how they dun goofed.
[gma.]
This interview is worthless as journalism without asking the question “What does ‘the consequences will never be the same’ mean?” Good Morning America had a chance...
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Dave: It's shocking this has taken as long as it has with attitudes like that!
me: I am shocked — shocked — to find that these attitudes are going on here!
me: (It's not too late to use Casablanca for pop-culture references, is it?)
Dave: Uh... no! Not at all!
I wish there was a way to filter LOST out of my...
Every time I’m reminded of the ending I begin rehashing just how stupid the ending was.
I’m angry every time I think about how the show that was emphatically not about time travel and then definitely not about people who were dead the whole time turned around and dedicated entire seasons to time travel and people being dead already.
There was no surprise or thrill or mystery in...
God Hinting At Retirement →
THE HEAVENS—At a press conference Tuesday, God Almighty, our Lord and Heavenly Father, gave his strongest indication yet that he might soon step down from his post as the supreme ruler of all things.
“I couldn’t be more proud of the universe I brought forth,” God said. “But a lot has changed since then, and if I’m completely honest with myself, I’m probably...
Gawker and 4Chan Are at War →
siddman:
Because Gawker called out Internet community 4Chan for relentlessly picking on an 11-year-old girl, it has now become a target itself. 4Chan apparently tried to mount some kind of cyber-attack on Gawker this afternoon, but it was repelled by the Gawker tech team, sending 4Chan into Plan B: harassing writer Adrian Chen. Needles to say, this epic struggle is not over. Just imagine that...
Are Kids Getting High Off of ‘Digital Drugs’? -... →
Dubbed “the latest Internet trend,” I-dosing involves listening to two-toned audio files meant to alter your brain waves in the same way that alcohol, marijuana or other drugs might.
“Old Spice’s parent company Proctor & Gamble exhibited incredible bravery in...”
– - ReadWriteWeb Article
This is what made the campaign. It goes on to say they were operating in Internet time with TV quality. WINNER!
(via scotthale)
Vanderbilt's most famous reform was the most...
he forbade brass ornamentation on all locomotives, to save the time spent polishing them. This one step attracted lengthy comment in newspapers and railroad journals. Clearly it sent a powerful signal that economy would be Vanderbilt’s defining principle.
(via Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, pp. 409-410 by T. J....
The Creativity Crisis (Newsweek) →
…It’s too early to determine conclusively why U.S. creativity scores are declining. One likely culprit is the number of hours kids now spend in front of the TV and playing videogames rather than engaging in creative activities. Another is the lack of creativity development in our schools. In effect, it’s left to the luck of the draw who becomes creative: there’s no concerted effort to nurture the...
A photo leveller →
bobulate:
50 pairs of women — maids and their employers — stepped away from their daily routines to be photographed about what unites them:
For the photos the employers and maids wore the same thing: a white shirt and no jewellery or decoration. With the images made under these “equalizing” conditions, the artists leave it up to the viewer to guess — using one’s own cultural codes — which woman...
